Clerkship Patient Tracking Forms

For an excellent general medical scutsheet try the double sided sheet to be folded in half that fits in your white coat pocket at Medfools.com. Keep track of the meds, past medical history, labs, studies and more.
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PubMed search plugin for Firefox

Do you use the Firefox web browser and search PubMed a lot? We now have a “plugin” available that will put UCSD’s PubMed link (which gets you our local UC E-Links and article ordering features) into the search engines pulldown menu located in the Firefox browser.

The link that installs the plugin can be found on our PubMed information page - scroll down to the section labelled “For Techies & PDA users.” It should work for both Mac and Windows versions of Firefox.

Faculty of 1000 Biology Now Available

Faculty of 1000 Biology highlights and evaluates the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a Faculty of over 1600 of the world’s leading researchers including several at UCSD. Click here to try it out.
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New Ejournals from Bentham

UCSD faculty, staff and students now have ejournal access to eight new titles in the fields of pharmaceutical, biomedical and medical research from the publisher, Bentham:

Current Organic Chemistry; Current Medicinal Chemistry; Current Pharmaceutical Design; Current Protein & Peptide Science; Current Molecular Medicine; Current Drug Targets CNS & Neuro; Current HIV Research; Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Chemistry.

PLANTS: A New Resource from the USDA

Looking for some quick information about plants in the U.S.? Check out PLANTS, a new resource from the USDA created to promote land conservation in the U.S. and its territories. PLANTS includes information about, species distribution, characteristics, and over 30,000 images. It also includes links to other Web resources and references. You can even submit your own images! PLANTS is available at: http://plants.usda.gov.

UC Libraries join Google book scanning project

The University of California libraries have announced their partnership with Google to digitize books from the libraries’ collections. UC becomes the latest partner in the Google Books Library Project, which was launched in December 2004 to digitize books drawn from the libraries of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University, and the New York Public Library.

The digitized books will be searchable through Google Book Search.

The full press release is available from the UCOP news site.

Calisphere Web Site Launched

Calisphere is now available at: www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu

Calisphere is a free public gateway to thousands of digitized primary sources — including photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, works of art — from UC museums and libraries and other cultural heritage institutions across California. The site is a significant redesign of the CaliforniaDigitalLibrary.org web site (for background information, see the CDLINFO February 13, 2006 article at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo022306.html#3), and has a special emphasis on serving California teachers and librarians.
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Journal Citation Reports for 2005 now here!

We’ve received our copy of the Journal Citation Reports for the 2005 publication year. This annual publication from ISI lists various citation-related data about journals covered in the Science Citation Index portion of the Web of Science database. This is where you’ll find the journals’ Impact Factor, a measure of a journal’s overall impact within its field. The Impact Factor is derived from the number of citations to articles from the particular journal divided by the total number of articles published in that journal during the most recent two-year period.
See http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/journalcitationreports/impactfactor/ for more details.

This is one publication we currently receive in print form, not online. It’s in our Permanent Reserve collection, with the call number ZW1 S411J. If you just have a few journals that you want impact factors for, please ask and we’ll be happy to read them over the phone or fax you a copy of a page.

BMC Molecular Biology Impact Factor in the Top 25%

BioMed Central’s Molecular Biology Journal just received its new impact factor of 4.49, placing it in the top twenty-five percent of the field. BMC Molecular Biology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that includes articles about all aspects of DNA and RNA. The journal is indexed by several databases, including PubMed, BIOSIS and Web of Science. To find out more about open access journals, visit: Scholarly and Scientific Publishing: A System in Flux.